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What is CollegeReady?

CollegeReady powered by ChalkTalk TM is a high school course that prepares students in grades 9-12 for high-stakes exams: the PSAT, SAT, and ACT. It is a true blended learning course that combines teacher-led instruction & software-based practice.

CollegeReady teaches students 100 Reading, Writing, and Math topics, resulting in higher proficiency & growth on the PSAT, SAT, and ACT, as well high school English Language Arts (ELA) and Math subjects.

Our class is offered by most high schools as a core class or elective. Some schools offer it as a study hall, 7th period class, supplemental class, or after-school activity.

100 ELA & Math Topics Aligned to Your Curriculum

No two students are alike, so no students should be taught alike. CollegeReady helps you bring personalized learning to your classroom from lessons to assessments to reporting.

The CollegeReady “Strengths and Weaknesses” report is the most detailed report of its kind. For example, CollegeBoard gives you 7 subscores for the SAT; CollegeReady gives you 100. Our content and reports are also aligned with all 50 US State Standard codes as well as the IB and IGCSE curricula.

Blended Learning Courses & Flipped Classrooms

Blended learning courses differ from online courses and MOOCs in that they combine technology usage with teacher instruction. The Flipped Classroom is one of the most widespread blended learning models in K-12, yet it suffers a major deficiency: students are expected to watch long videos at home and spend their entire class time doing practice problems. This means that students who skip watching the videos at home fall behind, and many who actually watch the videos do not fully understand the content so they too fall behind.

Teachers struggle with the Flipped Classroom model because it fundamentally changes the way that they teach and moves them from the role of educators to technology administrators. We’ve invented the Chalk Talk Blended Learning Model to resolve these inefficiencies, and we’re confident in our results.

Blended learning courses differ from online courses and MOOCs in that they combine technology usage with teacher instruction. The Flipped Classroom is one of the most widespread blended learning models in K-12, yet it suffers a major deficiency: students are expected to watch long videos at home and spend their entire class time doing practice problems. This means that students who skip watching the videos at home fall behind, and many who actually watch the videos do not fully understand the content so they too fall behind.

Teachers struggle with the Flipped Classroom model because it fundamentally changes the way that they teach and moves them from the role of educators to technology administrators. We’ve invented the Chalk Talk Blended Learning Model to resolve these inefficiencies, and we’re confident in our results.

Only Program with Full Adaptivity

According to an independent study by Pearson and EdSurge that surveyed 24 of the leading K-12 education software companies in the world, no one offered all three components of adaptivity. Chalk Talk has all three (Source: “Decoding Adaptive”, 2016. Pearson, London)

1. Adaptive Content : Our lessons have built in check-in questions. Based on the students’ responses to these questions, the lessons branch to different video pathways.

2. Adaptive Assessment : all of our practice questions sessions are adaptive to each student’s strengths and weaknesses.

3. Adaptive Sequence : our adaptive equalizer classes has each student focusing on their own top academic weaknesses, whatever these may be.

Why Care about Full Adaptivity?

Prominent American educational psychologist, Dr. Benjamin Bloom found that stu- dents who receive personalized instruction perform two standard deviations better than students who learn in conventional lectures. That means that students can go from being C students to getting A students if they receive personalized instruction. That’s huge, and that makes sense.

While it’s simply not possible to give every school teacher personalized instruction time with each student, CollegeReady powered by Chalk Talk helps your teacher simulate that experience better than ever with its three layers of full adaptivity.

Skilled Teams Specialized Departments

Our content is authored by perfect-scoring students, high school teachers, academics, and university professors

Our blended learning implementation team has decades of experience in K-12 schools, holding advanced degrees in educational fields ranging from early child development, special needs education, psychology, and education technology.

Our account management team has extensive experience working with teachers, principals, superintendents, and governments to cus- tomize an implementation plan for each client, train their staff, and support them as they use CollegeReady to ensure their success

Our Engineering/Product team members hail from renowned institutions such as:

Financing CollegeReadyTM

Federal & state funding; some of the eligible grant programs include Title I, Title II, Title III, Title V, Title VI, Title VII, IDEA, and UpwardBound